Cover M+ and MoMA’s respective directors Suhanya Raffel and Glenn D Lowry signed the MOU
M+ and MoMA’s respective directors Suhanya Raffel and Glenn D Lowry signed the MOU
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Hong Kong’s visual culture museum M+ expects more collaboration with New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the near future, as the two prestigious institutions sign a memorandum this month
Hong Kong’s museum of contemporary visual culture M+ and New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on February 18. The ceremony, which was attended by the two institutions’ respective directors Suhanya Raffel and Glenn D Lowry, took place at MoMA.
The signing of the MOU means the first comprehensive collaboration between M+ and MoMA in six areas starting from this year: artwork loans; exhibition and programme exchange; joint curatorial research and exchange; conservation and collection management, from acquisition to preservation, care, display and access; sharing sustainability practices; and training and knowledge sharing.
While M+ focuses more on Hong Kong’s and the rest of Asia’s visual art and moving images and MoMA on western pieces such as those by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cézanne, Pollock and Warhol, both institutions have in the past presented Asian artists, including Kusama and Murakami.
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Above From left: Suhanya Raffel and Glenn D Lowry (Photo: courtesy of Alycia Kravitz and MoMA)
From left: Suhanya Raffel and Glenn D Lowry (Photo: courtesy of Alycia Kravitz and MoMA)
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“We are thrilled to partner with M+ on an ambitious new collaboration, to exchange expertise and ideas that will help us take our museums forward in new and exciting directions and create more opportunities for our global audiences to experience and engage with contemporary art and artists,” Lowry says in a press statement.
“We are excited to embark on this partnership, which will not only deepen mutual understanding and strengthen our exchange, but also set the stage for collaboration on curatorial affairs, collection development, exhibition research, and museum operations,” Raffel adds. “The signing of this MOU affirms M+’s commitment to collaboration with pre-eminent cultural institutions around the world and strengthens M+’s position as Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture.”
The specific projects and exhibitions under this MOU are yet to be announced.
Zabrina is the Senior Editor, Arts and Culture of Tatler Hong Kong. She specialises in performing arts, visual art and film. Her wanderlust was first fuelled by the Mighty Rovers Antarctica Expedition 2010. Over the years, she has interviewed A-list artists and filmmakers, including Oscar winners Chlóe Zhao and Tim Yip, Golden Horse winner Sylvia Chang, In the Mood for Love cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Pachinko author Min Jin Lee, and Coachella’s first Chinese solo singer Jackson Wang. She won gold at the WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards for her 2021 feature on the waves of hate crimes targeting Asian Americans.
